"Recently, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service issued guidelines that will discourage many bona fide trafficking victims from applying for T visas."
"I understand your answer, that any proliferation--I get it."
"It is almost forced labor. They get sent abroad to places like Venezuela."
"We need some responses on the Cuba sonic attack briefing that I have asked for."
"I fully advocate for preventative action so that we can obviate kinetic action."
"I am troubled that political appointees at the Department of State have sought to sideline career officials based on political loyalty."
"It has been too hard. It has been frustrating."
"I do not know what happened. I do not know if anything occurred in North Korea, other than a press conference."
"I will take backseat to no one in the United States Senate on challenging what happened at NATO, what happened at Helsinki."
"I look for individuals who are going to be Assistant Secretaries within their field who will be strong advocates."
"I am not going to rubberstamp nominees who, in the process of their simple presentation to the committee, cannot be forthcoming and transparent."